Nonsense Quotes - Page 36

• There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Mountain, Would Be

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• Perhaps he had to be close in order to keep a reason for the things he did. To make the things he did be themselves Life. And not merely a delightful exercise of technical skill which man had been able to achieve because he, of all the animals, had a fine thumb. Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Life, Animal, Men

  "All the King's Men".

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• I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The business of getting going, getting started, is enormously important, and this can be physical. Solvitur Ambulando as the Romans used to say, which means the solution comes through walking.

  Colin Dexter

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

  David Hume

  Running, Believe, Silly

  David Hume (1965). “David Hume: Philosophical Historian”, Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill

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• God doesn't start wars. That's the greatest load of nonsense. Mankind starts wars. But then we bless armies to go and kill in God's name. Somebody's got to blow that myth out of the water.

  Betty Williams

  War, Army, Blow

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• Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing

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• The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps.

  Alexander Grothendieck

  Math, Years, Groups

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• You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues.

  Howard Wolpe

  Smart, Believe, Issues

  "Howard Wolpe: U.S. Rep. Fred Upton has become a 'right-wing extremist'". An Open Letter To Fred Upton, www.mlive.com. October 14, 2011.

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• The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

  Jim Harrison

  Civilization, Danger, Courses

  Jim Harrison (2007). “The Beast God Forgot to Invent”, p.3, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Believe, Don't Believe, Bits

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.1064, Penguin

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• If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.

  Edward Gorey

  Children, Thinking, Trying

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• I'll always be happy if they'd leave me alone in that delightful and unknown furthest corner, apart from struggles, putrefactions and nonsense; the ultimate corner of sugar and toast, where the mermaids catch the branches of the willows and the heart opens to a flute's sharpness.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Struggle, Heart, Mermaid

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• Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Criticism, Triumph

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2005, Manonmani Publishers

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• The idea that by eating the meat of an animal, the animal powers or faculties could be conveyed to oneself is nonsense and originates in a mental ignorance of the perfect and genuine primitive laws.

  Franz Bardon

  Ignorance, Animal, Law

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• I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

  Natalie Portman

  Thinking, Acting, Cameras

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm not a showbiz person. I just enjoy talking nonsense on the radio. I'm not bothered about going to clubs or the paparazzi, I genuinely prefer my neighbours. Spending time with my family and watching Coronation Street are what I love best. People are just people, aren't they?

  Tony Blackburn

  Love Is, Talking, People

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?

  William Pitt

  Men, Able, Talk To Me

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• When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

  Samuel Butler

  Science, Talking, Law

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.121, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A free government with an uncontrolled power of military conscription is the most ridiculous and abominable contradiction and nonsense that ever entered into the heads of men.

  Daniel Webster

  Military, War, Men

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• I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

  Luke Ford

  Christian, People, Want

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• That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

  William Morris

  Inspiration, Matter, Mere

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• Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

  Voltaire

  Years, Pigs, Should Have

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.154, Penguin

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• You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Sweet, Looks, Answers

  "Circling: 1978-1987" by Dejan Stojanovic, Krugovanje, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "The Circle," (p. 39), 1993.

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• Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other

  James Thurber

  Sex, Shadow, Lines

  1961 Of English. Lanterns and Lances,'Such a Phrase as Drifts Through Dreams'.

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• I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

  Jim Bolger

  Thinking, Views, People

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